I have a laptop with no floppy drive and I would like to make a Norton Ghost Boot Disk on a bootable CD. I cannot find instructions on how to do this on the Symantec site or doing a Google search or reading the manual. :-(

My HDD is partitioned and one of the partitions is for the backup ghost files so I will not be backing up from a CD but I might need the CD to start the backup.

Near as I can tell you are SOL without a floppy drive. I read through the Ghost manual and all I could find was in the Command line switch section that talked about bootable cd. It didn't make any sense to me relative to doing it without a floppy.

One other alternative. Radified has developed a Ghost manual that is said to be much easy to undersatnd. Haven't looked at it myself. It's a PDF document you download. Might be worth a look.

Originally posted by raybro: One other alternative. Radified has developed a Ghost manual that is said to be much easy to undersatnd. Haven't looked at it myself. It's a PDF document you download. Might be worth a look.

Originally posted by raybro: One other alternative. Radified has developed a Ghost manual that is said to be much easy to undersatnd. Haven't looked at it myself. It's a PDF document you download. Might be worth a look.

"If you have a laptop with no floppy drive, you will run into problems creating a bootable CD, because Ghost will ask "Do you want to make this CD bootable". And then it will ask you to put a bootable floppy disk in your floppy drive. If you run into this problem, see HERE for a posible solution. Also check out Bart's Bootable Ghost Restore CD-ROM: "ELGHOST" (link from Matt Reason). Also, this link might help: Ultimate Boot CD.

The next feature that Ghost needs, but does not yet have, is the ability to create bootable CDs on systems which do not have a floppy drive. Many laptops no longer ship with floppy drives. It can be a royal pain to create a bootable Ghost CD if your system does not have a floppy drive. "

I've checked out his links and the answer is WAY past my expertise!!

Would you know if a floppy can be put into a laptop and where one would go to have it done if the laptop is still under warranty??

First make the Ghost boot floppy, then using Nero or other burn software choose to make a bootable data CD. It'll tell you to put your boot floppy in the drive. Put the Ghost floppy in. You don't need to put any other data on the CD.

Then burn it. No files will show on the final CD in windows explorer so don't worry about that.

The need for floppies will be around yet awhile! Laptops use to come with switchable bays.take out the cd and put in the floppy drive. You might want to ck with your laptop OEM and see if your laptop is convertible and the cost. I heard it said that if you don't get em while they last, down the road you won't be able to! Unless of course it's an aftermarket kind and that could have some compatability issues. Good luck!

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